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A space for you to discuss Google’s innovative technologies that help government agencies organize information and make it accessible and useful to the citizens and to authorized government employees. Visit us: http://google.com/enterprise/government

The word strikes fear in most of our hearts since the 2014 outbreak. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), this year’s Ebola epidemic is the largest one in documented history and has affected multiple countries in West Africa. And the problem has spread to the United States, with one reported case resulting in death.

Out of the many silly things I’ve done that I won’t tell my children about until they have children of their own, my favorite has to be driving a car through the Kalahari Desert. I had no idea what I was doing while operating a manual vehicle on unpaved, sandy roads with four friends. Cell phone service was incredibly limited and very expensive.…[Read more]

Want to cut business costs, increase employee productivity, and improve your organization’s cybersecurity measures? With Google Apps, these goals are easily achievable. Google Apps includes Google Calendar, Google Docs, Gmail, and other web applications, and it has been aiding with both state and federal government agencies.

Do you work with surveys, demographic information, evaluation data, test scores, or observation data? Are you interested in making the data you collect more useful by organizing it, analyzing it, and applying it in different ways?This self-paced, online course is intended for anyone who wants to learn more about how to structure, visualize, and…[Read more]

Google and the Internet of Things
IMO an interesting read from Quartz. regarding Google’s entry into the Internet of Things:Why Nest will be bigger for Google than AndroidNest is a company that makes smart smoke detectors and smart thermostats. That’s neat, but that gadget business alone is not worth $3.2 billion, the price Google just paid for…[Read more]

@ William Deveraux
Might want to review your settings with Microsoft….Of course if you trust MS not to use your data in any way that they choose and or directed I guess it is rather mute…
This is a screen capture from a Windows 8.1 setup…

I’m a little leary about trusting Google and anything they’re involved with. I even switched to Bing…. which may be a little better at keeping my profile as my profile not shared. Just careful I guess.

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Frustration, Rage, Anxiety, Despair. These are the feelings I have heard from many federal government civilians who have endured hiring and pay freezes, furloughs, sequestration, and government shutdowns, as well as current and pending workforce drawdowns and budget reductions. Add to the mix, the front edge of the Baby Boomer generation became retirement eligible in… Read more »

Dear Industry Partners, You are invited to participate in the Integrated Award Environment’s next virtual industry outreach event on March 24, 2015 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM EDT. Focused on the IAE Common Services Platform, this webcast meeting is intended for audiences interested in learning about our platform-as-a-service approach: what tools we’re bringing to the table… Read more »

Dear Industry Partners, You are invited to participate in the Integrated Award Environment’s next virtual industry outreach event on March 24, 2015 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM EDT. Focused on the IAE Common Services Platform, this webcast meeting is intended for audiences interested in learning about our platform-as-a-service approach: what tools we’re bringing to the table… Read more »

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